[HEMINGWAY, ERNEST.] GELLHORN, MARTHA. Fifteen typed letters signed and eight autograph letters signed to Jane Armstrong in Havana and one typed letter signed to Richard Armstrong, virtually all written from Cuba (a few on Finca Vigia letterhead), undated, but postmarked envelopes range in date from 8 May 1939 to 23 February 1942. Together 26 pages, nearly all 4to, the TLSs double-spaced, the ALSs nearly all in pencil, signed "Marty" or "Martha Gellhorn." With: a photograph of Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn on the back patio fence at Finca Vigia, 8 x 10 in., (200 x 255 mm.); a printed announcement of the Hemingway-Gellhorn wedding on 21 November 1940, 12mo, with envelope; and about five related carbons, cable, receipts, etc. In theses warm chatty letters to a good friend, Martha Gellhorn discusses herself and her writing, arranges for the typing of her works, talks of travel plans and mutual friends, and gives domestic news; in five of the letters she mentions Ernest Hemingway. [22 August 1941]: "Ernest hesitates on the brink of his memoirs. He finds himself feeling self conscious or pretentious or whatever, with the word 'memoirs.' I say, call it Journal and get started. But no. He either isn't ready inside his head, or something. It remains, a book to be done, that will be done, but evidently now is not just the right moment... It is a book I very much want to read; but you can't hurry the creative urge..." [24 May 1939]: "...Phyllis [the Armstrong's teenage daughter] reminds me so strongly of my dead and forgotten youth that I can hardly believe it. I had forgotten what an ache it was to be sixteen (though God knows I ached in a way to bring the roof down, from fifteen to twenty)... I think now, irritably, of all the things I did not read when I was too young to write, and how much better I would write now..." [15 March 1940]: "... I was very dreary for two days with the reviews of my book [A Stricken Field]. But saw yesterday the reviews of Poore and Gannett which came out the same day as the book, were long reviews and friendly, so cheered up. I do not value the praise any more than the blame, but hate to see all the work dismissed so lightly, without even consideration..."[With:][HEMINGWAY, ERNEST.] A group of four photographs of Hemingway: an original photograph of Hemingway at age 15 with his mother and three sisters, taken in Oak Park, Ill., on 1 October 1914, as the children were starting for school, 3½ x 5½ in. (90 x 142 mm.), lower left corner evenly chipped, fully captioned by his mother on verso and on two margins recto (with names, ages, heights of the children, etc.); a photograph of Hemingway at age 18 in Paris in uniform, sitting in a motorcycle side car, the Arc de Triomphe in the background, 5 x 4 in., (125 x 100 mm.); two photographs (one in color) of an adult Hemingway, both 4to. (31)

[HEMINGWAY, ERNEST.] GELLHORN, MARTHA. Fifteen typed letters signed and eight autograph letters signed to Jane Armstrong in Havana and one typed letter signed to Richard Armstrong, virtually all written from Cuba (a few on Finca Vigia letterhead), undated, but postmarked envelopes range in date from 8 May 1939 to 23 February 1942. Together 26 pages, nearly all 4to, the TLSs double-spaced, the ALSs nearly all in pencil, signed "Marty" or "Martha Gellhorn." With: a photograph of Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn on the back patio fence at Finca Vigia, 8 x 10 in., (200 x 255 mm.); a printed announcement of the Hemingway-Gellhorn wedding on 21 November 1940, 12mo, with envelope; and about five related carbons, cable, receipts, etc. In theses warm chatty letters to a good friend, Martha Gellhorn discusses herself and her writing, arranges for the typing of her works, talks of travel plans and mutual friends, and gives domestic news; in five of the letters she mentions Ernest Hemingway. [22 August 1941]: "Ernest hesitates on the brink of his memoirs. He finds himself feeling self conscious or pretentious or whatever, with the word 'memoirs.' I say, call it Journal and get started. But no. He either isn't ready inside his head, or something. It remains, a book to be done, that will be done, but evidently now is not just the right moment... It is a book I very much want to read; but you can't hurry the creative urge..." [24 May 1939]: "...Phyllis [the Armstrong's teenage daughter] reminds me so strongly of my dead and forgotten youth that I can hardly believe it. I had forgotten what an ache it was to be sixteen (though God knows I ached in a way to bring the roof down, from fifteen to twenty)... I think now, irritably, of all the things I did not read when I was too young to write, and how much better I would write now..." [15 March 1940]: "... I was very dreary for two days with the reviews of my book [A Stricken Field]. But saw yesterday the reviews of Poore and Gannett which came out the same day as the book, were long reviews and friendly, so cheered up. I do not value the praise any more than the blame, but hate to see all the work dismissed so lightly, without even consideration..." [With:] [HEMINGWAY, ERNEST.] A group of four photographs of Hemingway: an original photograph of Hemingway at age 15 with his mother and three sisters, taken in Oak Park, Ill., on 1 October 1914, as the children were starting for school, 3½ x 5½ in. (90 x 142 mm.), lower left corner evenly chipped, fully captioned by his mother on verso and on two margins recto (with names, ages, heights of the children, etc.); a photograph of Hemingway at age 18 in Paris in uniform, sitting in a motorcycle side car, the Arc de Triomphe in the background, 5 x 4 in., (125 x 100 mm.); two photographs (one in color) of an adult Hemingway, both 4to. (31)

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[HEMINGWAY, ERNEST.] GELLHORN, MARTHA. Fifteen typed letters signed and eight autograph letters signed to Jane Armstrong in Havana and one typed letter signed to Richard Armstrong, virtually all written from Cuba (a few on Finca Vigia letterhead), undated, but postmarked envelopes range in date from 8 May 1939 to 23 February 1942. Together 26 pages, nearly all 4to, the TLSs double-spaced, the ALSs nearly all in pencil, signed "Marty" or "Martha Gellhorn." With: a photograph of Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn on the back patio fence at Finca Vigia, 8 x 10 in., (200 x 255 mm.); a printed announcement of the Hemingway-Gellhorn wedding on 21 November 1940, 12mo, with envelope; and about five related carbons, cable, receipts, etc. In theses warm chatty letters to a good friend, Martha Gellhorn discusses herself and her writing, arranges for the typing of her works, talks of travel plans and mutual friends, and gives domestic news; in five of the letters she mentions Ernest Hemingway. [22 August 1941]: "Ernest hesitates on the brink of his memoirs. He finds himself feeling self conscious or pretentious or whatever, with the word 'memoirs.' I say, call it Journal and get started. But no. He either isn't ready inside his head, or something. It remains, a book to be done, that will be done, but evidently now is not just the right moment... It is a book I very much want to read; but you can't hurry the creative urge..." [24 May 1939]: "...Phyllis [the Armstrong's teenage daughter] reminds me so strongly of my dead and forgotten youth that I can hardly believe it. I had forgotten what an ache it was to be sixteen (though God knows I ached in a way to bring the roof down, from fifteen to twenty)... I think now, irritably, of all the things I did not read when I was too young to write, and how much better I would write now..." [15 March 1940]: "... I was very dreary for two days with the reviews of my book [A Stricken Field]. But saw yesterday the reviews of Poore and Gannett which came out the same day as the book, were long reviews and friendly, so cheered up. I do not value the praise any more than the blame, but hate to see all the work dismissed so lightly, without even consideration..."

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[HEMINGWAY, ERNEST.] A group of four photographs of Hemingway: an original photograph of Hemingway at age 15 with his mother and three sisters, taken in Oak Park, Ill., on 1 October 1914, as the children were starting for school, 3½ x 5½ in. (90 x 142 mm.), lower left corner evenly chipped, fully captioned by his mother on verso and on two margins recto (with names, ages, heights of the children, etc.); a photograph of Hemingway at age 18 in Paris in uniform, sitting in a motorcycle side car, the Arc de Triomphe in the background, 5 x 4 in., (125 x 100 mm.); two photographs (one in color) of an adult Hemingway, both 4to. (31)

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